Running

Out

Robin found himself on the sidewalk.

He was bleeding from several scrapes and tears in his outfit.

He put his hand up to his head.

Half his mask was gone!

And blood dripped from his forehead.

Suddenly, he heard voices.

Shoot!

He had to get out of here, now!

Robin jumped up even though everything was in fiery pain.

He had to get out!

He had to escape!

Slade would understand, right?

He didn't belong there!

He knew he belonged to Slade, but not while they were in there!

Robin ran.

Star City was Green Arrow's territory.

He also had Artemis and Red Arrow here.

One of them would come check out the explosion.

Maybe if he was lucky, they would find him instead of Slade or the other villains!

But if they find him, they'd take him from Slade.

Maybe he should wait for Slade?

Robin climbed to the rooftops.

No one would think to look there for him after an explosion, yeah?

They'd probably think that he's hurt, laying somewhere.

He jumped to another rooftop and kept running.

"STOP!" he suddenly heard.

Richard slid to a stop at the familiar voice.

He looked back to see Green Arrow behind him on the other side of the rooftop.

He had an arrow pointing at him.

"Richard?" Green Arrow asked in disbelief.

Robin's breathing picked up.

It wasn't supposed to be like this!

Slade was supposed to find him and then they were supposed to go back to the Haunt with Wintergreen!

The heroes weren't supposed to find him.

Now, they were going to take him away from Slade!

"No, you stop." A cold, clear voice sliced through the air.

Slade!

Richard looked over and saw Slade.

He was in his outfit, but he had several tears and blood stains on him.

He, however, had no wounds thanks to his healing factor.

Green Arrow pressed his S.O.S. button.

"Robin is going to come with me." Slade said.

"LIKE HELL!" Artemis screamed as she got onto the rooftop.

She pressed her S.O.S. too.

"He ain't going anywhere else with YOU!" Red Arrow spit as he pressed his S.O.S. too and got on the rooftop.

"And you three are going to stop me?" Slade laughed.

"No. We are." Superman said as he flew down and landed on the rooftop.